[arch] Filesystem errors while booting

[Eli Heady]

On Thursday 07 September 2006 15:21, Marco Louter wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The last days I'm getting a warning while booting, that the last write
> and last mount date/timestamp are in the future. It proceeds to fix
> that and check the disk. This happened several times this week, and
> ofcourse because the time it takes to check the disk it's very
> annoying. Is there any simple to do about this, or do I need to
> reinstall Arch or should I fear that my harddisk is dying?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Marco Louter
> marco.louter at gmail.com

I can't tell you why your system thinks the last mount time is in the future - 
other than your system clock is wrong, resetting, drifting radically ... ? 
This is the source of your problem, and you should investigate that before 
disabling the fsck at boot.

Though, if you like, you can stop the messages (and stop benefiting from the 
automatic check) by editing /etc/fstab. The last column for the filesystems 
in question should be changed to 0 to stop the automatic checks.

So, on mine, I would change
/dev/dm-0              /         xfs       defaults                0      1
to
/dev/dm-0              /         xfs       defaults                0      0

hth,
Eli

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